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this song. and. welcome to the press. about the growing capabilities of. the potential for. the aviation threat is real aviation is still a blue ribbon event for these terrorists al qaeda are resurgent they have reorganized their pushing more and more plots towards europe and have become familiar with new methods and still aspirants aviation attacks the minister told
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britain's sunday times newspaper the thoughts of an al qaeda aviation attacker keeping ministers quote awake at night he also said the terrorist group is developing technology to bring down passenger jets. the u.k. ministers are reportedly concerned by the recently announced u.s. withdrawal from syria warning that it will create a new safe haven for islamists the french president tomorrow macron is also concerned saying on sunday he deeply regretted u.s. president trump's decision now the u.s. is also planning to have its troop presence in afghanistan after seventeen years of war in that country that analysts warn of the war on terror has not only failed to defeat al qaeda but is actually spawned the birth and propagation of numerous other extreme militant groups auntie's even if done off takes a broader look. over the past eighteen years u.s. leaders have named a multitude of reasons for its troops to be stationed fight and die in afghanistan
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. the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan this military action is a part of our campaign against terrorism nine eleven disfigured and reformed the global security order as ranks of u.s. troops moved into afghanistan to defeat al qaeda and dethrone the taliban. desire quote as it may sound the outcome of this almost two decades long war is hardly worth the price both the u.s. and afghanistan have paid more than sixty thousand of us and afghan soldiers have been killed al qaeda is still there and nineteen other terrorist groups including eisel cropped up and gained foothold in afghanistan right under the nose of the
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u.s. army there. as for the taliban it is no longer in power but still this is hardly a victory worthy of eighteen years of hard fighting as the current government struggles to remain in control of just over a huff of the country but the war on terror was only one of the points on washington's to do list in the country. we will work with local leaders the afghan government and international partners to have
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a reconciliation process in every province huff of afghan children without education poverty and discrimination are rampant the countries ranked third for corruption by transparency international not exactly a shining light of democracy so when donald trump stepped into the oval office he promised among other things to focus on soft power let afghanistan be the country its people wanted to be. we're a partner and a friend but we will not dictate to the afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society trump calling afghanistan a partner falls into the basket of cases when long distance relationships just don't work beat out good leadership ordinary citizens they don't see american troops making a difference for them. either fighting as we have a number of civilian casualties as a result of these attacks if they are here for our protection and why bomb us why
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do we have civilian casualties that is why no one ever felt safe in their presence better do as an afghan citizen i don't feel safe with the u.s. army vehicles and tanks in the streets we are afraid of blast maker at any time the afghans have faced a lot of issues because of that what they mean of this creation of course business is down there is no security and people come to america one thing in afghanistan and that was to destroy an already very very hard very damaged country in terms of removing the terrorists removing taliban and everything and they have failed because taliban is still there taliban have actually expanded now and so trump boasted about being a problem solver in the end we will win but since the u.s. president's own definition of victory is this obliterating isis.
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preventing the taliban from taking over afghanistan the u.s. army is no withdrawing its evacuating running away deserts in the battlefield beaten. u.s. officials generals whatever they will always keep saying that this war has reached a stalemate because they will never admit that this war has already been lost when the u.s. invaded afghanistan in two thousand and one. the taliban consisted of maybe two hundred to four hundred members today that were his ation has splintered into several different organizations across continents in the numbers of tens of thousands this war has been a complete and utter failure the pentagon the white house and trump will never admit that they will call it things like a stalemate and then now they're going to look at private contractors to try to save this war. a traditional danish song has sparked
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controversy that's after a foreign female teacher at the danish business school was offended by a line that associates denmark with a young blonde girl the school promptly apologized the sun media report saying the song was actually banned by the college but indignant danish politicians decided to get together and sing the song that should. be. the. one of the schools teachers says important issues have been raised by the debate generated by the song saying it's helped danes realize quote how blind we are but that just enraged some danish politicians even more. go on this song is about the essence of being then ish it's a pillow for gaucho we should never bow just for it it's a great time to find out whether it was a joke unfortunately it wasn't still pete just stop if we're no longer alone with
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the single songs than the poets he stops it to start the way out of proportion we have come so far in the discussion of identity and the violation culture that our society has fallen apart. the song was written by hoffman in one thousand nine hundred twenty four and is regularly performed all across the country though it is not the first time that a national classic has been dropped because someone took offense for example a school in the u.s. city of philadelphia scrapped the book the adventures of huckleberry finn due to its use of a racial slur and u.s. radio stations refused to play the christmas classic baby it's cold outside after some critics said it was actually about sexual assault our guests debate the issues raised by the danish song. but the only one who really takes it seriously seriously is this head of the school it's a metaphor it's not that everybody here has to be
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a blond girl to be accepted as a person or to be a citizen in the society denmark has a real problem with integrating whether it's assimilation project where this integration of tolerance projects all the attitude towards immigrants people coming from war zones people escaping conflict and torture and those who are genuinely not and who are generally asylum seekers refugees there's no link between denmark's ability to integrate people and this song this is a song that is hundred years old it's part of being it's culture it's part of our cultural heritage and i think it's horrifying that we're now we have to erase our past people want to live in diverse multicultural blended societies nowadays that nobody's asked them to change the culture or leave their culture behind in modern enlightened societies we tolerate inclusive people should be able to come to denmark and feel included in society but don't forget you're not actually allowed
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to come to denmark and be integrated or welcome in society unless you already speak danish this is an attack on an danes cultural identity and i think this was the chance of these are the kind of these are the kind of ridiculous tropes these are kind of the. tribes know nothing if you're free is your point. here is worse he said you point your point is that these are taught. in so great danes culture you need to know what it's all about i tell you get your pulled your horrified we're raising your culture the point is this. culture change this is a change there are migration around migration flows around europe and ultimately you are going to have to give way to the new generations who are coming and saying we want integrated blended multicultural society they said we don't want to see him so he said yes to that you know what i mean said oh yes today our history i mean people here larry we'll get today's nation where yesterday's news hour don't want to sing songs of yesterday i mean we have a past we have
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a history and to know who you are you need to know your history and what i'm very afraid about about this political discussion but it will correct discussion is that a tricycle freedom is under threat because now you can write a song without you know trying to raise your past are plenty more still to come on the program here on r.t. including with the alleged threat of russian propaganda still being touted far and wide ever more tools to counter it appear to be being developed we dig deeper now into newly emerged documents that are suggesting a u. k. funded think tank called integrity initiative has been trying hard to foster the russian sentiments in your. the think tank in question is said to wield a new type of weapon with which to block and of russia's name namely so-called clusters in various e.u. states basically groups of journalists who are on message about russia might have guns they have investigates if she were an organization it would be
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integrity initiative low and behold an army of propagandists disguised as anti propagandists whose job is to malign. the slander be it states ideas people even british politicians our investigation has found wiring evidence the shadowy programs official twitter account has been used to attack or been the labor party and their fresh us one three quoted newspaper article calling corbin a useful idiot that goes on to state he's open visceral anti vest unease in how the kremlin course as surely as if he had been secretly peddling weapons to tattle for money you can imagine the shock mr corben must have felt when he learned through these leaks that integrity knishes eve had no operational to defame him well funded by the british government no less but slandering german corben opposition
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politicians isn't their only job the integrity initiative which is working to counter disinter motion overseas by bringing together groups of experts to analyze and discuss the problem posed by russian this information the government is funding this initiative with the early two million pounds this financial year but funding covers its activity outside the u.k. and it has not found any activity within the u.k. the hacktivist group anonymous has leaked details on the operation integrity initiative functions by setting up independent clusters candidates seem to be hand-picked big plus a few influential charismatic but the chief requirement seems to be you've got to really hate russia the integrity initiative was set up to bring to the attention of
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politicians policymakers opinion leaders and other interested parties of the threat posed by russia to democratic institutions in the united kingdom across europe and north america now here's what's been bugging me personally if these white nights and solve perf. best fighters for the truth are what they say they are why are they hiding why are they trying to stay in the shadows anonymity of the team remains paramount as our activity increases we will no doubt attract unwanted attention irregardless here is how their class the system works see you have an article in the french le monde a harsh attack on alleged russian propaganda in france the author the french professor happens to be part of integrity initiative french cluster and at least according to the leaked lists and gets paid to trash talk russia they even
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boosted their grand plans when visited by a coup founder of the institute of statecraft which birth integrity initiative in italy and the atlantic council published a big study with help from an editor of less very influential italian newspaper surprise more bashing russia it became increasingly evident in twenty sixteen that russian strategic narratives sometimes including dissent from asian and conspiracy theories were systematically spread in italy by the vast network of pro and five s. web sites and social media accounts not so much of a surprise. call binny is also listed as a member of the italian cluster and also gets paid for his work unfortunately according to an internal integrity initiative memo their peers to be a shortage of russian propaganda in italy in italy it appears evident that the
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promotion of a strategy to spread disinformation and to influence the italian political opinions has been limited in came much more from national populist parties rather than from russia or what sort of a foreign country strange isn't it how they chose to keep that. part secret we can go on and on about other clusters but you get the point they pretty initiative even targets us here at c according to the leaked documents they have people presumably who they paid to report. on the british media regulator ofcom actually publishes complaints statistics only if the ten complaints didn't make that list it seems like integrity initiative not audience members convinced of calm to go off to sea we've all noticed our anti russian sentiment in the media has soared over the last years and still we now know one of the reasons but
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above all these leaks and in my view tear the mosques off the baal that fights russian propaganda as they claim and what's underneath is ugly. we asked of the u.k. foreign office to comment on the whole integrity initiative allegations it told us that the claims were being spread by kremlin news channels as part of a russian this information campaign we spoke to were piers robinson chair politics at sheffield university he says this is much less about countering russian propaganda and more about sowing and embedding narratives on a domestic and regional level. it seems to be just as much about promoting ensuring up official u.k. policy towards russia as it is about actually countering any russian threat the
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u.k. government and other western governments in the us in recent years have had increasing difficulties persuading enough of their populations as to the legitimacy of the foreign policies that have been pursuing and at the same time western countries have been going through a period of political crisis an economic crisis and i think a lot of this drive is as much about trying to shore up shakey official narratives and trying to shore up political systems in a situation of political crisis as it is actually about countering russian propaganda or i think i would suspect that's a little bit of an excuse here that really what's going on at problems much closer to home. but this is not just to do the u.k. this is europe wide and there also are indications from the documents that they are intending to start to have some kind of impact within the united states it's a very wide ranging network it seems we established reason what needs to be
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covertly of course is that if a media organization or of a journalist is to let on that he or she is involved in a program which quite clearly is pushing a particular agenda then the credibility of that journalist will be damaged and this is really what is very deceptive about the integrity in the shooting it's about co-opting journalists and academics into a into essentially a campaign which appears to be a propaganda campaign in order to manipulate opinions and the only way that can really work effectively is that readers and viewers don't know what they're reading is something which has emerged from a particular political agenda as a correspondent within a culture of a now investigates how the story went even further with newly leaked documents claiming the group could have dragged ukrainian soldiers into it's alleged russian . the integrity initiative first part of a u.k. based and sea shoot called stagecraft charity promoting peace and security league
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documents published by a group claiming to be from the hacking collective anonymous revealed that the charities a main investor as the u.k. home office the integrity initiative suggests this as its purpose to unite people who understand the threats in order to provide a coordinated western response to russian dish information and other elements of hybrid warfare those leaked files say the initiative facilitated a visit from ukrainian reserve officers back in july twenty sixth seen for them to share combat acts pretties regarding the russian military the documents to give food time table for that visit detailing who the militants met with. over the course of seven days integrity initiative sent them on a country wide tour including several days major of military installations offering extensive briefings to key british and nato military intel and planning units they
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also said down with the u.k. defense committee so who was this military past and now given the red carpet treatment well that leaked documents provide a very little information about them they also have and the ukrainian military that's the only thing a stablished along with the hundreds of parachute jumps each have under their belt perhaps enough to score an invite so we have a charity and a group of ukrainian military man now to get this information out in the open well me deborah haynes best known for being the defense editor at the ukase times newspaper well and she is given exclusive access to the ukrainian guests apparently on monday the eleventh of july well that's according to the need to schedule just several weeks later an article appears in the times sounding quite biliteral and based on an anonymous defense sources that detail a russian triggered
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a third world war on a tiny scale in ukraine there is no mention of her alleged meeting with ukrainian military officers and no mention of integrity initiatives alleged halpin bringing it about just warnings of a ramped up russian threat president putin has turned information into a military to using websites social media radio stations and mass text messaging to influence opinion spread fear and cause confusion as part of a new kind of fighting in which is a weapon we wrote to miss haynes but are still waiting for any response the only common did make was on twitter answering a direct question from a drawn list asking if she. not the military group while they were in the u.k. . you describe yourself as an investigative john what exactly are you implying if you really are an investigative journalist you will know there are serious
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consequences for publishing accusations even though even on threaten. are you saying this is untrue. documents to know what they are all i can say john list needs people. it is called doing my job i meet people all the time not this mean i'm connected to. doing your job would probably entailed researching leaked documents as well no especially when you yourself are repeatedly named in them did you not research who arranged the meeting and why to the veracity of the documents published on the anonymous website have been called into question with contacted the times and british defense ministry about that but so far they have chosen not to respond r t did get a reply as well from the director of the state crop institute himself thank you very much for your inquiry but as r.t.
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is a state sponsored propaganda organization and not a legitimate news channel we have no comment to make your sincere lisi in donnelly so here we have the birth of a big anti russia had line an exclusive story to bullet according to the league documents and seems like a simple recipe westminster founding wing military man and the journalist to stay at together with a think tank allegedly using clusters of journalists all over europe to propagate its ideas the released documents suggest hanes may actually be a part of a u.k. cluster which is thought aims at shaping domestic politics appears at robinson again says the group's alleged actions amount to political interference. some people might believe that such activity is necessary some people might believe in the official claims regarding russian propaganda and misinformation cetera and feel that it's necessary i would expect
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a lot of departures public who want to have information being delivered to them which is not tarnished by such propaganda or manipulation campaigns would be very upset so much money and so much resources are being put into what is effectively distorting and corrupting the public sphere within u.k. and across european countries this is political interference that's a program for this hour here on r.t. international though many more good monday headlines very soon we're back at the top of the hour. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five
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hundred three per second per second and when rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remembering one one doesn't show you know for a minute the one and only. but i certainly don't expect that very many people will choose to be biologically. move your body isn't working for a while it also means your mind isn't working so well so i believe that indeed we will have pretty much no biologically old people who will have a much greater number of call of the old people.
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rushes minister of economic development might seem thank you very much and welcome back to our team. my first question might sound a bit unusual but how does it feel to be someone who always finds himself in a position where he has to defend the ruble actually what in the deal or to get friends the trouble is the system of market economic incentives that were. created in russia in the past so. the years we are collecting of them every day it's the inflation targeting is the new face of the little mechanism which is only it's rational from the blitz you gets you on the global commodity markets and this is what's in the deal if you protects the russian currency makes it more stable because if you compare the cut institutionalization of twenty which you would have as if that put it at that point of time we have polls because of the sanctions
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stocks we have sharp decline in oil prices it's even the fuss that was happening in the autumn of twenty foot you but the difference is the really dramatic at that point of them it was extremely well to have financial markets which went into the mystic when they meet these things. by the fed that we have for you floating exchange rate because of previous feeble currency we have previously able financial markets which are not on the big stress and that helps economy going forward and they're leaving a stable economy because i would just like to explain really quickly to our viewers that i was lucky to have a conversation with the minister in september and i wasn't the only journalist by far who was asking mr rushton about the russian currency but today the ruble is
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about six percent weaker then you predicted back then so what is going wrong with the forecasts. well the first of course the thing that is impacting the russian currency next year all come when you see quantum is across the globe is the fact that the oil prices declined substantially minerva talking with you in september as far as i remember the oil price was at all and that was per bottle now it's if you look at the bread price it's fifty five so it's you know dramatic change here and what we have that in the same period of time since september robel has appreciated at that point of time when we were talking to you we see you in the global was trading against the u.s. the as far as i remember it was above seventy robles put a dollar now we have sixty six sixty seven with a. little bit of volatility here a little bit of what you feel there but once again.
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